What is made here
Wine colours
Colours the rules allow. Pick a colour to filter the rules and grapes below.
Where it is
Lebrija in Spain
- Latitude
- 36.8°–37.1° N
- Production zone
- 40,570 ha
Lies within
Jerez-Xérès-Sherry, Manzanilla-Sanlúcar de Barrameda
Worked out from the boundaries (smallest container first). They follow whole communes, so a neighbour sharing a commune can show up here too.
Boundary drawn from whole communes, so it is a little larger than the legal zone. Boundary: Eurac Research PDO inventory (CC0). Country outlines: Natural Earth. Dots on the zone map are the vineyard points used for climate.
Showing every colour The colour filter changes the rules and grapes. Climate, vintages and soils describe the vineyards, so they stay the same.
01 · What the law says
The rules
Limits on grapes, yields, ripeness and ageing that every wine labelled Lebrija must meet.
Other varieties allowed
Besides the main grapes, the rules allow these varieties in some wines. Grape names link where a profile exists.
9 varieties · Lebrija Vino generoso, Lebrija Vino generoso de licor, Lebrija Mistela
Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Moscatel de Alejandria, Palomino, Palomino Fino, Sauvignon Blanc, Syrah, Tempranillo, Tintilla de Rota
In the vineyard and cellar: rules for every wine
Permitted
Irrigation
02 · Climate fingerprint
The climate
The growing season averages 22.4 °C, very hot on Gregory Jones's scale, with 2,657 growing degree days (Winkler V).
The average year 1991–2020, vineyards at about 30 m
Monthly mean, °CRain, mmGrowing season
- Growing-season temperature
- 22.4 °C
- Very hot · above 21 °C (Jones)
- Growing degree days
- 2,657
- Region V: 2,222 and over degree days
- Growing-season rain
- 203 mm
- Of 519 mm a year
- Harvest rain
- 104 mm
- September–October
Copernicus ERA5-Land monthly averages at 4 vineyard points (Vineyard point 1, 44 m; Vineyard point 2, 27 m; Vineyard point 3, 30 m; Vineyard point 4, 20 m), moved to each point's height from the model's terrain. Indices that need daily data are not captured yet. How the climate figures are made.
Closest climates in the database
Picked by the data, not by hand: the profiles nearest on season warmth (counted twice), degree days, rain, ripening-month nights and day–night range. Neighbours within 30 km are left out, as they share the same weather.
1. SiracusaVery similarCompared with Lebrija: same season warmth, similar rain.
2. Condado de HuelvaVery similarCompared with Lebrija: same season warmth, similar rain.
3. Montilla-MorilesVery similarCompared with Lebrija: same season warmth, wetter (+26 mm).
Growing-season temperature
Growing degree days
Growing-season rain
03 · Year by year
35 vintages
Each column is one growing season: heat above or below the 1991–2020 average, and rain at harvest. Pick a year for the details.
Warmer than averageCooler than averageHarvest rain (Sep–Oct)Average harvest rain, 104 mm
2025
- Growing-season temp.
- Growing degree days
- Harvest rain
- Growing-season rain
- September nights
- Hot days and frosts
Seasons are labelled by harvest year (April–October). Year-to-year changes from ERA5-Land; tested against station records in Alto Adige (r = 0.94 for season temperature at Bolzano). Rain varies more locally, so treat single-season rain with some caution. Vintage ratings, harvest dates and frost or hail events have places in the data model but are not loaded yet.
04 · Where the numbers come from
Sources
- A geospatial inventory of regulatory information for wine protected designations of origin in Europe · Candiago et al., Scientific Data 9, 394 (2022); Eurac Research · CC0
- ERA5-Land monthly averaged data (reanalysis-era5-land-monthly-means) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), Climate Data Store · CC BY 4.0 (Copernicus licence)
- Technical file: Lebrija (Ares(2014)2135380) · National authority, as filed in the EU register (eAmbrosia) · Official document
- Appellation nesting worked out from boundaries (pipeline/build_nesting.py) · Vinous, from the Eurac PDO boundaries · CC0 (source data)
- Climate profiles calculated by Vinous: method
Still to check (3)
- Generated from EU reference data: check against the current product specification.
- From the specification: Source is the 2014 technical file (single document in Spanish). Generoso types are 'Flor de Lebrija' (aged under flor) and 'Lebrija Old Vino Seco'; generoso de licor may be labelled 'Lebrija Old Dulce'; ageing is by criaderas y solera or by vintage. The yield table prints 10,000 (Sauvignon Blanc), 11,250 (red) and 6,000 (Cabernet Sauvignon, Tintilla de Rota) as hectolitres per hectare, apparently a unit error for kg/ha, so they are not recorded. No minimum total acidity is given; Roble, Crianza, Reserva and Gran Reserva may be used for vintage red and white wines.
- National tier (DOC/DOCG) not captured yet; rules extracted from the specification text.